HERE’S SAVANNAH GUTHRIE. >> GOOD MORNING.
IT’S 9:05 AND WE’RE COMING ON
THE AIR WITH BREAKING NEWS.
A SHOOTING AT THE NAVAL AIR
STATION IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ON THE SCENE
RIGHT NOW.
RIGHT NOW. THE BASE LOCKED DOWN.
ACCORDING TO AN ALERT ON ITS
FACEBOOK PAGE, AND FIVE PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN TRANSPORTED TO LOCAL
HOSPITALS.
HOSPITALS. WE’RE ALSO TOLD TAT THE SUSPECT
HAS BEEN KILLED.
AN ACTIVE SHOOTER REPORTED
EARLIER IN THE DAY.
THE SUSPECT NOW KILLED AND THE
ARE REPORTS OF INJURIES.
I WANT TO BRING IN PETE WILLIAMS
WHO IS FOLLOWING THE STORY.
PETE, WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES
TELLING YOU?
TELLING YOU? >> SAVANNAH, THE FIRST REPORTS
OF THIS ACTUALLY CAME ABOUT
THREE HOURS AGO, ABOUT TWO AND A
HALF HOURS AGO, ABOUT 6:30 THIS
MORNING IS WHEN THE FIRST CALLS
BEGAN TO COME IN.
THE AREA HOSPITAL SAID FIVE
PEOPLE HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED
AFTER THE BASE WAS ON LOCKDOWN.
THIS IS THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR
STATION.
STATION. AND OF COURSE, IT’S THE SECOND
SHOOTING AT A MILITARY FACILITY
IN THE PAST WEEK.
EARLIER THIS WEEK, THERE WAS A
SHOOTING OF CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES
AT THE PEARL HARBOR NAVAL
FACILITY JUST AHEAD OF THE
CELEBRATION OF THE PEARL HARBOR
ATTACK.
ATTACK. WE’RE TOLD NOW BY THE NAVY THAT
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN IN ADDITION
TO THE PERSON WHO WAS FIRING THE
SHOTS, ONE OTHER PERSON KILLED.
WE DON’T HAVE A FIRM NUMBER ON
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
INJURED IN THE SHOOTING.
AND WE DON’T KNOW WHO THE PERSON
IS WHO WAS FIRING THE SHOTS,
WHETHER IT WAS A NAVY PERSON,
SOMEONE IN UNIFORM, A CIVILIAN
EMPLOYEE, OR SOMEONE UNCONNECTED
TO THE BASE.
SO WE’RE STILL WAITING TO GET
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STORY.
AND OF COURSE, SAVANNAH, ONE
THING THAT THE MILITARY IS GOING
TO WANT TO LOOK INTO HERE IS
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY, A COPYCAT
SHOOTING BASED ON SOMEONE WHO
WAS SOMEHOW INSPIRED OR
TRIGGERED TO ACT BY WHAT
HAPPENED EARLIER THIS WEEK OR IS
THERE SOME OTHER CONNECTION
BETWEEN THESE TWO?
THOSE ARE QUESTIONS, OF COURSE,
TO BE ANSWERED IN THE DAYS TO
COME.
COME. BUT FOR NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE THE
SITUATION IS -- HAS ENDED WITH
THE DEATH OF THE GUNMAN.
AND NOW THE WORK IS TO TRY TO
FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE,
WHAT THE MOTIVE WAS.
>> AND THE NAVY DID, I BELIEVE,
TWEET OUT THAT, AS YOU
INDICATED, THERE’S ONE MORE
FATALITY AT LEAST AT THE LOCAL
HOSPITAL THERE.
HOSPITAL THERE. HAS SAID THAT AT LEAST FIVE
PATIENTS WERE TRANSPORTED THERE,
BUT WE DON’T KNOW THE NATURE OF
THEIR INJURIES.
THEIR INJURIES. I GUESS THE CALLS STARTED COMING
IN AROUND 6:30 A.M.
AS YOU SAY, A COUPLE HOURS AGO,
BUT THE GOOD NEWS, IF THERE IS
ANY, IS THAT THE SITUATION IS
NOW RESOLVED AND THAT THE
SHOOTER IS DOWN.
YOU KNOW, YOU TALKED ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED AT PEARL HARBOR, THE
BASE THERE EARLIER THIS WEEK,
NOW WE SEE WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
YOU WOULD THINK A MILITARY BASE
WOULD BE ONE OF THE MORE SECURE
PLACES IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND THERE’S OBVIOUSLY PROCEDURES
TO GET IN AND OUT.
BUT THEN AGAIN, IT IS ALSO, THIS
RAISES THE SPECTER OF WHETHER IT
COULD BE SOMEONE ON THE INSIDE
WHO HAD CREDENTIALS TO GET IN
THERE.
THERE. >> WELL, AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT
HAPPEN BEFORE.
HAPPEN BEFORE. ANOTHER MILITARY FACILITIES,
YES, IN ONE SENSE, MILITARY
FACILITIES ARE SECURE BECAUSE
YOU HAVE HIGHLY TRAINED PEOPLE
AND MILITARY POLICE AROUND.
ON THE OTHER HAND, OBVIOUSLY,
YOU HAVE A LOT OF ARMED
PERSONNEL.
PERSONNEL. >> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS
UNFOLDING SITUATION, EVEN AS WE
SPEAK.
SPEAK. AT THE NAVAL AIR STATION IN
PENSACOLA.
PENSACOLA. THEY CALL THIS THE CRADLE OF
NAVAL AVIATION TRAINING.
A TOWN OF ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE.
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THERE IS ONE
SHOOTER WHO HAS BEEN KILLED.
IT WAS A LOCKDOWN SITUATION ON
THE BASE, AN ACTIVE SHOOTER.
MOMENT OF OBVIOUS FEAR AND PANIC
THIS MORNING.
THIS MORNING. FIVE PATIENTS HAVE BEEN
TRANSPORTED TO THE LOCAL
HOSPITAL THERE.
HOSPITAL THERE. NO WORD ON THE NATURE OF THEIR
INJURIES AND THE NAVY NOW JUST
REPORTING THAT THERE’S ONE
ADDITIONAL FATALITY AS WELL.
WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS